Sanctioned Ship Unloads Russian Oil in China After Long Journey
- The Huihai Pacific discharged its cargo in Tianjin on Friday
- It had originally been heading for a port in Shandong province
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A tanker sanctioned by the US this month has discharged Russian oil in China after an unusually long journey in which it changed its destination from Shandong province, a hub for independent refiners.
The Huihai Pacific, an Aframax that’s a regular on the route from Kozmino on Russia’s Pacific coast to China, unloaded nearly 770,000 barrels of ESPO crude in Tianjin, near Beijing, on Friday morning, according to ship-tracking data from Bloomberg and Kpler.